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MacDowell: Suites Nos. 1 and 2; Hamlet and Ophelia. Takuo Yuasa, Ulster Orchestra. Naxos 8.559075.(Review)
MacDowell: Suites Nos. 1 and 2; Hamlet and Ophelia. Takuo Yuasa, Ulster Orchestra. Naxos 8.559075.
There was a time just before the turn of the twentieth century when Edward MacDowell was the most popular American composer in the world. Times change, and MacDowell's brand of high Romanticism has long been on the decline. This disc presents three of the man's orchestral works, none of which match the grace or beauty of his piano concertos but which make for pleasant, easy listening.
The program begins with the Suite No. 1, premiered in 1895. It is a series of tone poems, the names of which will give some idea of their content: "In a Haunted Forest," "Summer Idyll," "In October," "The Shepherdess Song," and "Forest Spirits." Obviously, these are pastoral pursuits, mostly calm and serene set pieces. They are remarkably unremarkable, nor is there any particular order discernible in their arrangement. Less disjointed is the Suite No. 2, written several years before the Suite No. 1 but not performed until a year later. It is subtitled ...
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